On August 2, 2024, Faridabad Police conducted raided two illegal call centers in Sector 86 and the YMCA area in Sector 7 for duping American citizens with Microsoft technical support scams with fake toll-free numbers and remote-access tools such as AnyDesk, TeamViewer and UltraViewer. The scammers extorted money from their victims in order to “fix” nonexistent issues such as multiple hackers leaking their personal and financial information.
- 11 individuals were arrested in Sector 86, including their kingpin Sameer Srivastava and employees Yash Taneja, Avidip, Chirag Arora, Deepika Arora, Hermant Tiwari, Lavi Guglani, Aethil Gulati and Sahil Sodhi. Three mobile phones and 5 laptops were seized.
- 17 were arrested in the YMCA area of Sector 7, including 5 women, Their manager, Rakesh, was arrested in Delhi. 45 laptops and three mobile phones were seized.